psi (psy?) studies were apparently really big in the 70s both in Russia and the USA. You could also look at large scale prayer studies, which I remember people doing now and again. Depending on who did the studies, some say effective, some say not. But same kind of idea you can pursue.
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Other avenues to possibly explore:
Prisoner’s Dilemma. Lots of studies done on those ideas. There’s faults to the Prisoner’s Dilemma though, as it assumes “best interest”, “rational” behavior which … I mean, come on… human are involved here.
But still, each of the prisoners is attempting to mind-read the other (and the game theory folks are trying to mind-read both of them with logic) and they came up with some patterns which may or may not be true but I think they’ve done real experiments with it.
“(in game theory) a situation in which two players each have two options whose outcome depends crucially on the simultaneous choice made by the other, often formulated in terms of two prisoners separately deciding whether to confess to a crime.”
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Sees “banned” in title of youtube video.
Notices it’s a Youtube video.
Realizes it’s not banned on Youtube.
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If you don’t click like, subscribe, follow, reshare, +1, 
(y),, your [person that feeds you] will [sustain a consequence that would render them unable to feed you] tonight!…
..oh wait you have to be under-13 for that one..
…maybe… nvm that was ageist of me.
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I hate the ones that have a gruesome picture of an animal in bad shape and says something like,
“Reshare if you hate animal abuse”
“Ignore to kill this cat”
I mean, it’s not the worst kind of viral but too much of that and some people get desensitized to stuff…
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Actual kids make and share these things at least now. They also make the sarcastic ones too, attempting to maximize cringe factor. Which brings me to cheese touch. [diary of a wimpy kid]
Gross-out dares + “do/don’t do this or ELSE!” stuff is perfectly normal for kids, so that these kinds of memes are created and spread so rapidly among them doesn’t surprise me : the internet for them is a giant playground time, crossing time and space, creating a new collective consciousness for GenZ.
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O_O wait – and with shared experiences comes mutual predictability, perhaps even improving psi-type responses, as exposure to similar stimuli may result in similar responses because spongebob memes… hmmmm
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it does. From a psychological POV, it “comes out” of them in different ways.
Even the most sociopathic lying individual who can ‘say anything” and feels little/no emotion for people *still* isn’t immune from SOME internal pressures from secret-keeping.
Measuring such results of inner toothpaste tubes being squeezes might be hard.
and really, what is social psychology but a skeletal view of psychic?
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[ie – social psychology could be seen as a subset of psychic]
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Makes sold sense. There’s also an active process of inhibiting secrets because secrets bubble up even in random bubblings up to consciousness and some kind of “guard” has to always be vigilant to prevent such secrets from entering into full consciousness. That has to create some sort of heat or otherwise measurable quantity.
{and that’s when someone is keeping a secret from themselves, or trying to]
Also explains the effects of lowering inhibition (drinking/drugs/hyponosis/guided meditation/laughing/sex/lack of sleep/sudden shock) on removing inhibitors, releasing the secret, whether to one’s self or outside of one’s self.
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I find my own secrets that I’m keeping from myself by a processing of asking myself, “What am I avoiding right now?” I do it again and again as it gets harder and harder to answer them until I reach a point where I jump out and start moving around to get away from the exercise.
That’s when I know I’m at the cusp of ‘something’ I don’t want to think about and I’ve reached the end of what I can tolerate without help.
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